{"id":153561,"date":"2025-09-19T04:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:17:06","slug":"force-boosted-by-donaldson-return-for-super-rugby-aus-clash-with-brumbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153561\/","title":{"rendered":"Force boosted by Donaldson return for Super Rugby AUS clash with Brumbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Round 2 of Super Rugby AUS has been supercharged with Ben Donaldson the latest Wallaby set to don club colours this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Western Force playmaker hasn&#8217;t played since the third British &amp; Irish Lions Test on August 2 after suffering an adductor strain during the Wallabies tour of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/news\/super-rugby-aus-2025-teams-all-the-team-news-for-round-2-2025916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Catch up on the latest Round 2 Super Rugby AUS team news here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Donaldson has since flown to Perth to link up with James Stannard&#8217;s Super Rugby AUS squad after undergoing recovery training in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Following Donaldson&#8217;s omission from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/news\/white-off-into-the-sunset-as-gordon-headlines-returns-for-wallabies-bledisloe-squad-2025918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Joe Schmidt&#8217;s Bledisloe Cup squad<\/a>, Force media confirmed he would replace rookie Henry Palmer in their matchday squad to face the Brumbies at Tompkins Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">It follows news from Ballymore of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/news\/wallabies-duo-faessler-flook-added-to-reds-squad-for-waratahs-clash-2025919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Wallabies duo Matt Faessler and Josh Flook being released to play<\/a> in Queensland&#8217;s Super Rugby AUS fixture against the NSW Waratahs in Narrabri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">All Super Rugby AUS fixtures will be live streamed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/rugbycomau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">rugby.com.au\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0and Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Saturday September 20 2:00pm AWST \u2013 Force v Brumbies at Tompkins Park, Perth, ad-free, live and on demand on Stan Sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">FORCE (1-15):\u00a0Marley Pearce, Albert Alcock, Tiaan Tauakipulu, Mitch Watts, Darcy Swain (c), Will Harris, Kane Koteka, Vaiolini Ekuasi; Henry Robertson, Max Burey, Viliami Fine, Kurtley Beale, George Poolman, Justin Landman, Mac Grealy<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Wes Thomas, Max Sawers, Sean Paranihi, Max Johnson, Titi Nofoagatotoa, Issak Fines-Leleiwasa, Ben Donaldson, Ronan Leahy<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">BRUMBIES (1-15):\u00a0Lington Ieli , Liam Bowron, Tevita Alatini, Lachlan Shaw, Harvey Cordukes, Toby MacPherson, Luke Reimer (c), Rory Scott, Klayton Thorn, Declan Meredith, Ollie Sapsford, David Feliuai, Hudson Creighton, Kadin Pritchard, Shane Wilcox<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Lipina Ata, Tauati Chan-Tung, Rhys van Nek, Tuaina Taii Tualima, Judah Saumaisue, Dan Nelson, Joe Dillon, Jarrah McLeod<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round 2 of Super Rugby AUS has been supercharged with Ben Donaldson the latest Wallaby set to don&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,69535],"class_list":["post-153561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-aus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}